TechTarget writer Sean Michael Kerner talks to Western Union’s chief data officer, Thomas Mazzaferro, in a new story that talks about Western Union’s approach to cloud data migration, and more.
“For global payment and money transfer services vendor Western Union, data quality is a core element of its cloud data lake efforts,” writes Kerner.
Western Union is not just concerned with the quality of that data, it is also mindful of the quantity.
“We’ve done a lot of consolidation throughout the last 18 months,” Mazzaferro tells the website, noting that the company has migrated more than 20 petabytes and now has more than 90% of its data in the cloud.
Mazzaferro also tells TechTarget that his team uses Talend and its suite of data tools for data ingestion, extract, transform and load, as well as data quality.
“Talend enables data to be visible because if you don’t have data in the right place, you can’t visualize it properly,” Mazzaferro tells TechTarget. “Talend really helps to streamline and optimize our processes and our capabilities to support our customers.”
“Our focus for the new year is to scale, expand, modernize and improve our business policies through data-driven insights and through data quality,” Mazzaferro adds of Western Union’s 2022 data goals.
